john meekins

John Meekins is a former newspaper reporter and always an adventurer. He has reported and written about news events over much of the United States and beyond. He covered the Vietnam War in Vietnam. He has a special interest in history and is currently working on a history of the 15th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment from the Civil War. He was born in Oklahoma, raised in New Mexico and also has lived in New Hampshire, Indiana, Ohio--and Germany.

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The Lima Company Memorial, a series of life-size paintings of US Marines killed in Iraq in the summer of 2005 by Columbus, Ohio artist Anita Miller, has only been on public exhibit since Memorial Day ...
“Winner Take All, How Competitive Shapes the Fate of Nations" by Richard J. Elkus, Jr. is not just a great book to read, it is an important book for the future of the United StatesIt is importa...
There is a link on UTube to a song sung by George Alexander from the movie El Dorado. The movie starred John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. The song is of the same name as the movie. Anyway, the man has ...
Summertime tour of the Mexican War battlefields of the 1st Missouri Volunteer Mounted Rifles—planned this summer 2008. Start just south of Las Cruces, New Mexico at the approximate site of th...
The assignment sounded simple enough: “Find out what the medals were.”It came from the copy editor’s who’d handled an obituary I’d written about a New Hampshire soldier...
Imagine that? Yes, it is hard to imagine since much of Ohio was a wilderness in 1812, but a diary I am reading by a soldier of the American War of 1812 tells of coming to just such a town. Or, maybe i...
People 15 feet tall? People 2 feet tall?Doesn’t sound possible.Yet, there are at least two stories of the giants, both based on bones. There are also at least three stories of little, but very...
People 15 feet tall? People 2 feet tall?Doesn’t sound possible.Yet, there are at least two stories of the giants, both based on bones. There are also at least three stories of little, but very...

She burned to death!

My mother-in-law's night gown caught on fire Saturday morning as she fixed breakfast. Looking at the site where the flames engulfed her, the only thing remaining is a grim scattering of ashes. Nothing...

Burned almost to death

I am at this moment at a hospital in Tampa, Florida where my mother-in-law is expected to die any time--because of second and third degree burns over more than half her body.What happened?She was cook...
Two interesting projects underway in Ohio are the life-size paintings of 22 US Marines and a Navy Corpsman killed Iraq in2005 that will soon go on display at the Ohio State House in Columbus, and sepa...
The lead paragraph in my morning newspaper told of how “SURPRISED” the country was to hear U.S. Sen. Hilary Clinton had won the New Hampshire primary election—because all the polls h...
Congressional Medal of Honor, Republic of South Vietnam Does anyone out there know what happened to the Congressional Medal of Honor names that were put on the outside walls to the two-story buildi...